Shadow vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Shadow is made by Debian. We track 7 published vulnerabilities in it, across 45 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Shadow, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Shadow's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Shadow flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 0.9%CVE-2008-5394High
/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a...
- 0.6%CVE-2005-4890High
There is a possible tty hijacking in shadow 4.x before 4.1.5 and sudo 1.x before 1.7.4 via "su - user -c program".
- 0.4%
useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with...
- 0.4%CVE-2017-20002High
The Debian shadow package before 1:4.5-1 for Shadow incorrectly lists pts/0 and pts/1 as physical terminals in /etc/securetty.
- 0.3%CVE-2004-1001Medium
Unknown vulnerability in the passwd_check function in Shadow 4.0.4.1, and possibly other versions before 4.0.5, allows local users to conduct unauthorized activities when an error from a pam_chauthtok function call...
- 0.3%
The Debian installer for the (1) shadow 4.0.14 and (2) base-config 2.53.10 packages includes sensitive information in world-readable log files, including preseeded passwords and pppoeconf passwords, which might allow...
- 0.3%CVE-2013-4235Medium
shadow: TOCTOU (time-of-check time-of-use) race condition when copying and removing directory trees
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/bin/login in shadow 4.0.18.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, and probably other Linux distributions, allows local users in the utmp group to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file referenced in a line (aka ut_line) field in a utmp entry.
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We track 7 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Shadow, across 45 versions.
None of Shadow's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.
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